A Grave Matter | Jobs - Basso Thief Guide

Employer: Basso [Stonemarket - Basso's Office]

Availability: You get the opportunity to start this mission after you have completed the fifth chapter of the game. You need to meet up with Basso at the Crippled Burrick tavern.

Your destination has been shown in the above screenshot - it is located in [Stonemarket - Market Street], which you visit, among others, on your way to the place, where you start the sixth chapter of the campaign mode. You can learn more, about the means of reaching this district at the page entitled Reach Baron Northcrest's estate in Auldale. I recommend that, before you start this mission, you make sure that you are equipped with, at least, one Rope Arrow, the Wrench and the Wirecutter, because you are going to need these to complete this mission.

It is not going to be easy to access the storage but, the game will allow you to take either of the two available ways to enter. The first variant assumes that you start by going to the location in the North-East of the destination point, i.e. to [Stonemarket - Watch Station Plaza] (watch out for the nearby guard!). Locate the passage shown in the above screenshot, enter the venting shaft, using the wrench. After you emerge at the other side of the shaft, you will walk into [Stonemarket - Watch Customs Yard] and you will have to go Westwards to reach the window of the storage, which you can easily reach after you climb.

The second variant assumes that you stop in a small tunnel between Baron's Way South and the Market Street, i.e. directly to the North of your destination. Look up and use the rope arrow in the spot shown in the above screenshot. Before you grab onto the rope to climb, you need to make sure that nobody's watching.

watch out for the pressure plates and walk around them carefully.

Climbing the rope [Stonemarket - Watch Customs Office] will not get things done, because you will walk into the room with four pressure plates, which activate traps. Crouch and start avoiding the traps by slaloming among them (it is a good idea to use Focus to your aid here, to locate pressure plates). If you want to, you can use the wirecutter, after you get past the traps, on the box on the left, but this is not necessary. What is necessary, though, is picking the lock on the door.

The urn

Regardless of which path you have taken to get here, you should access the storage's main area [Stonemarket - Watch Customs Office], which you, of course, need to explore thoroughly. In here, you can find a Letter Opener - 3G, an Ink Bottle - 8G, two Pens - 4+10G, a Flask - 4G and a register (Stonemarket - Register of Stolen Goods). The urn (Grandfather's Ashes - 50G), which you are looking for, is inside one of the cupboards. At this point, this mission will end.